It never ends and I agree with GGM. Got D2 and LOD when they came out and play but had no idea what I was doing, still loved the game though. I scarcely played up until about a year ago. Finally beat LOD in Hell difficulty and yesterday I unintentionally had my first encounter with the Uber Diablo Clone and my merc got his ass handed to him.
quick note about peace runeword: the valkyrie no longer despawns when you take it off. she lasts until death no matter what now. so if you're a summoner, like necro or druid, you might want to pick one up just to get a larger army. just go around slapping mobs in act 1 until she spawns and you're gucci for the most part. she has a bad habit of dying on bosses though, especially diablo, baal, but for everything else she is usually going to survive. if you see her drop low during elite mob packs you can panic-tp and heal her back up. the brilliant thing about adding her specifically to a summoner build, is that she shares aggro with all your other minions, which by default means she has much more survivability, as she no longer has to tank everything herself, and vice versa, her presence increases your army's survivability since she will take aggro off your other minions occasionally, leaving the rest of your army taking less damage. oh, and then of course there is the fact that she has a longer range of attack due to using a spear, so most of the time she will stand behind your skelly army and just dps without taking hits.
always wished the game would let you view the inventory of the summons - valk as well as the assassin's shadow master - just like you can with the mercs. Seems like that'd be an easy QoL tweak.
I actually love how the game does not tell you these things in some elaborate stats menu. Legit not being sarcastic. I like finding things out for myself and having little context to work with, even if it means someone else discovering it and telling me 20 years after the game released lol
I just found this channel and these skill breakdowns are amazing. My very first D2 character (before LoD was even released) was what I called a Dodgazon. So happy to hear that they have finally fixed getting dodge-locked. I never even realised it was a bug!
Making some progress on a cool Valkazon having fun with it. I like Harmony the speed aura is great for Valkyrie also I have a great 168%ed witch wild string got a 30 Ed rare jewel with some extra effects in their. The black spear Valk is a big fan of Amp damage.
Love the vid, I’m just finishing off my bowazon build, and I think a level 53 Valkyrie is possible! 20 hard points, +3 helm, +3 amulet, +3 gloves, +3 torch, +2 armour, +3 wpn, +2 shield, +2 rings, +1 belt, +1 anihilis charm, +1 from battle command, then +9 from grand charms. My Valkyrie is currently at level 43, and I could get to 47 if I moved my cta, spirit arachnids mesh and hoto from my sorc, but I don’t know how much more those extra levels really get me, especially for just a chaos run... maybe cows haha
I just had to come to this video because my Valkyrie was casting hydra when she got struck. I had to check my gear, and my merc’s gear and I was like, “it’s not coming from us, what does my valk have on?” 😂
just for this video you helped alot for my valk played this game for 20 years and didnt know all this but with this video really appreciate the info for this now i will subscribe
@@GGMentor I thought I read somewhere that it needs to be hard skills for her to get the gear upgrade. Is that not true? Im playing Frost/Fire zon right now so I have a ton of + skills and that would change my allocations quite a bit :)
@@CommanderReplay hard skills is for the synergies. So valk gets synergies from, decoy, Evade, avoid, Dodge, penetrate, and critical strike. Only hard points affect these synergies. But the Valkyrie skill itself works fine off of Plus to skills
I imagjne a passive only build may be quite difficult to go through the campaign and leveling solo. And even in endgame taking on huge mobs must be a hastle. Fascinating i didnt know Valkryie was so complicated. But it makes sense since necromancer skeletons also had random gear.
back in the 1.07 days there was a maphack out there that would let you view other players gear, it also worked for your valkyrie, shortly after that I got banned:p
I remember using some sort of program back in the days that allowed me to inspect other peoples gear. It funnily enough also worked for the Valkyrie and the Assassin summons, thats how i learned about it. Though never as spesific as this video. Would you do a video on the assassin summons also?
With a Fendazon it allows for plenty of points into her support skills, my favorite build but is only viable with a top tier rare spear weapon. With life steal if can just about survive infinite cows and kill them as fast as the surround you.
This is very interesting and an awesome detail, I'm building an Amazon and put a point into Valk, so cool that she "upgrades"😍😍 sorry I'm watching while typing so apologies if you mention this later but she appears to cast Amp damage??
They should allow you to see the equipment your Valk is wearing but just not be able to take it off or swap it … or better yet treat her like mercenary and let you equip her but if she dies she loses the gear or every new game she would lose it too so that people wouldn’t just throw godly gear on her
I can just imagine her with reaper's toll, life steal and some sort of movement bonus. If we can equip her, I think there's not really much that can kill her.
@@GGMentor more like seeing their disappointed face when they ask me what was I watching. I tell them "An amazon, rogue and a valkyrie". Their eyes light up and they ask me to show them so I show them the pixeled characters in the legacy graphics :)
Yes especially with a shield 75% block chance and good defense like fortitude. She ends up having multiple layers of defense so thick she is practically unhittable. And crit makes for very nice physical hits yes
Technically a hoto would get you one more right also you could have a Tira with +3 passives and 3 more grand charms. I’m not sure if you had those in your cube but when I summon my skeletons and stuff sometimes I’ll pull out my 3 extra summon GCs run pindle then I’ll put em back Does that javelin give +4 to passives ? Titans?
+13 in your inventory (9+3+1) +1 from cta +2 skill shrine Then +3 circlet +3 amulet 3from gloves 3 (4?) from weapon 2 rings 2 shield 2 from armor 1from belt (boots?) I think max Valkyrie is around 55 might be 56-57 I’m not sure but 52ish without skill shrine and cta
@Ginger Gaming Mentor QUESTION: if i pop on Insight runeword (for +1-6 critical strike) along with my Peace runeword, as a non-amazon, will my valkyrie spawn with the bonuses provided to her by that crit bonus? same question goes for any amazon skill (such as evade) that isn't amazon-specific on items. thanks in advance.
- Rare version of your own armor's base item - Rare version of your own helm's base item - Rare left ring - Rare right ring - Rare amulet - Rare Bramble Mitts/Vambraces/Orge Gauntlets - Rare Suwayyah/War Fist/Scissors Suwayyah on their right hand - Rare Battle Cestus/Runic Talon on their left hand
What's a good mix of the passives (synergies) to Valk in builds like mine that also utilizes bow skills. Meaning I don't have enough to "max" every skill.
Light-Gold Armor - normal, no enhanced mods other than + light radius. Dark Gold Armor - 24% Faster Hit Recovery Pale Gold Armor - 66-80% Enhanced Defense (saintly) Orange Armor - Attacker Takes Damage of 4-6 White Armor - +x defense based upon the slvl of your valk, and the clvl of your character. Blue Armor - chance to cast Frost Nova/Nova on being struck. Dark Red Armor - Poison length reduced by 75%. Red Armor - Think of this as 'of the ' armor. Huge +life bonus, and almost a double regen rate. This is the ideal. Valk Weapon Colors Blue - Chance to deal cold damage. Potential use of a cold skill on striking. Teal - Chance to deal lightning damage. Potential use of a lightning skill on striking. Green - Chance to deal poison damage. Black - Enhanced damage modifier. Life leech is also a possibility. White - Large bonus to AR. Think "of the fool's."
Not sure, something they didn't address in the change to impale. But I'm recent testing it also doesn't seem like she is slowing targets down which is another new feature of impale. Perhaps either A she didn't get her impale buffed,.or B she is not using impale.
One thing I think could be cool for Amazon’s is if we could equip the Valkyrie but to keep it interesting and not completely busted, restrict her to RARE equipment at best. No uniques, no sets, no runewords. That way you get to have a cool consistent Valkyrie but no sudden bonus auras etc.
Shadow Master is like a house cat. She's going to do whatever she feels like, and sometimes it's Dragonflighting to a different enemy when you want her to tank. Sometimes she'll toss in a Mind Blast and randomly convert an enemy you're trying to kill. Sometimes she'll throw out a few Death Sentries and wipe out a whole pack of monsters by herself. You never know. It's definitely a lot more interesting to watch the SM do work, but if you want a reliable tank, the Valkyrie's better.
22 years on and I'm still learning new things about this game haha.
Lol which is why d2 is the goat
It never ends and I agree with GGM. Got D2 and LOD when they came out and play but had no idea what I was doing, still loved the game though. I scarcely played up until about a year ago. Finally beat LOD in Hell difficulty and yesterday I unintentionally had my first encounter with the Uber Diablo Clone and my merc got his ass handed to him.
Same
For real
All this time and I never knew how intricate the Valkyrie was.
This is exactly the video I was looking for
So much info, so much learning, imagine speaking of each skill 20min average, best mentor!!!
quick note about peace runeword: the valkyrie no longer despawns when you take it off. she lasts until death no matter what now.
so if you're a summoner, like necro or druid, you might want to pick one up just to get a larger army.
just go around slapping mobs in act 1 until she spawns and you're gucci for the most part.
she has a bad habit of dying on bosses though, especially diablo, baal, but for everything else she is usually going to survive.
if you see her drop low during elite mob packs you can panic-tp and heal her back up.
the brilliant thing about adding her specifically to a summoner build, is that she shares aggro with all your other minions, which by default means she has much more survivability, as she no longer has to tank everything herself, and vice versa, her presence increases your army's survivability since she will take aggro off your other minions occasionally, leaving the rest of your army taking less damage.
oh, and then of course there is the fact that she has a longer range of attack due to using a spear, so most of the time she will stand behind your skelly army and just dps without taking hits.
always wished the game would let you view the inventory of the summons - valk as well as the assassin's shadow master - just like you can with the mercs. Seems like that'd be an easy QoL tweak.
I don't want to change their inventory but I'd love to be able to see what they've got on.
@@GGMentor yep that's what I mean.
Yea can’t lie this has to be another area where when they rushed the game they dropped the ball :)
But I would hope they could vest some time on this
With a map hack that had the ability to inspect players, you could actually see their items! They were always some random rare(yellow) items.
@@75675761 PD2
I actually love how the game does not tell you these things in some elaborate stats menu. Legit not being sarcastic. I like finding things out for myself and having little context to work with, even if it means someone else discovering it and telling me 20 years after the game released lol
I just found this channel and these skill breakdowns are amazing.
My very first D2 character (before LoD was even released) was what I called a Dodgazon. So happy to hear that they have finally fixed getting dodge-locked. I never even realised it was a bug!
Making some progress on a cool Valkazon having fun with it. I like Harmony the speed aura is great for Valkyrie also I have a great 168%ed witch wild string got a 30 Ed rare jewel with some extra effects in their.
The black spear Valk is a big fan of Amp damage.
Love the vid, I’m just finishing off my bowazon build, and I think a level 53 Valkyrie is possible! 20 hard points, +3 helm, +3 amulet, +3 gloves, +3 torch, +2 armour, +3 wpn, +2 shield, +2 rings, +1 belt, +1 anihilis charm, +1 from battle command, then +9 from grand charms.
My Valkyrie is currently at level 43, and I could get to 47 if I moved my cta, spirit arachnids mesh and hoto from my sorc, but I don’t know how much more those extra levels really get me, especially for just a chaos run... maybe cows haha
Valkazons are pretty fun and you can still do well as a passive zon.
Came for the Valkyrie build, stayed for the chinchilla.
I just had to come to this video because my Valkyrie was casting hydra when she got struck. I had to check my gear, and my merc’s gear and I was like, “it’s not coming from us, what does my valk have on?” 😂
yup valk can get hydra when struck on amulets I believe.
Have you consider to write some kind of dissertation on Diablo II. You'd be upgraded to Ginger Gaming, PhD.
Hmmmmmmm 🤔.
Why Diablo 2 is an accidentally perfect game by ginger gaming mentor
They should add Fend to her skills set to make more interesting summon.
Could be fun
Might be OP. Maybe jab instead.
@@someguy3186 fend is so much better in groups
just for this video you helped alot for my valk played this game for 20 years and didnt know all this but with this video really appreciate the info for this now i will subscribe
Thank you sir, glad I could be helpful
@@GGMentor all good was just good to know some secret info to some of the characters even playing this game for 20 years plus this i didnt know
Thanks for the great info! Putting 17 points into valkyrie :)
With plus skills mind you, so if you have +10 you only need to invest 7, and so forth
@@GGMentor I thought I read somewhere that it needs to be hard skills for her to get the gear upgrade. Is that not true? Im playing Frost/Fire zon right now so I have a ton of + skills and that would change my allocations quite a bit :)
@@CommanderReplay hard skills is for the synergies.
So valk gets synergies from, decoy, Evade, avoid, Dodge, penetrate, and critical strike.
Only hard points affect these synergies.
But the Valkyrie skill itself works fine off of Plus to skills
@@GGMentor Fantastic thanks for the help!
I imagjne a passive only build may be quite difficult to go through the campaign and leveling solo. And even in endgame taking on huge mobs must be a hastle. Fascinating i didnt know Valkryie was so complicated. But it makes sense since necromancer skeletons also had random gear.
would be interesting to see the comparison between this and a synergised Iron Golem.
back in the 1.07 days there was a maphack out there that would let you view other players gear, it also worked for your valkyrie, shortly after that I got banned:p
Doh
@@GGMentor I know right, who would've guessed, certainly not 12 y/o me
@@robbzooi it was the wild wild west of the internet you could download anything lol.
@@GGMentor great times though, and a lesson was learned as well:p
Good stuff bro. Gonna try this build next! 😎 you da man, man
I remember using some sort of program back in the days that allowed me to inspect other peoples gear. It funnily enough also worked for the Valkyrie and the Assassin summons, thats how i learned about it. Though never as spesific as this video. Would you do a video on the assassin summons also?
Eventually yes
Had to move over here for a bit. Had a pretty good day yesterday with my coldazon, even found a 30% Wizendraw while doing travical NM for her
Great and informative video, much appreciated! Also... I think you have rodent problem, see shoulder
hah, he is my buddy sir
With a Fendazon it allows for plenty of points into her support skills, my favorite build but is only viable with a top tier rare spear weapon.
With life steal if can just about survive infinite cows and kill them as fast as the surround you.
Ish, must takes longer to cast the right Valk than it takes to raise a skelleton army...
This is really cool
Valk is pretty neat
Thank you that was very helpfull
This is very interesting and an awesome detail, I'm building an Amazon and put a point into Valk, so cool that she "upgrades"😍😍 sorry I'm watching while typing so apologies if you mention this later but she appears to cast Amp damage??
Damn cool - I learned a lot
i want to try it!
Was there ever any more talk about impale working with valkyries? I can't find it anywhere.
Passion and peace combo pre buf is looking pretty good about now. By the By Valk stays after removing gear.
The valk staying after removing the gear was a recent change. So the video is now outdated unfortunately.
@@GGMentor I'm seeing that a lot on d2r info :P
@@frankenstein3163 with any game patches change things for sure and over time videos become outdated
My harmony has +5 to valk but it only gives +3 when I look at the skill level. Is this a bug that might get fixed?
Could you do a video on how to beat the ubers? Maybe without end gear as well? :D
Could be something I put together, it's really just about having the right equipment
Dude ubers are endgame
life tap + crushing blow + open wounds + fast attacking character = profit. You don't need some super endgame gear.
@@ryancollyard3851 budget Uber gear is a whole thing, people killing Ubers with lvl 30 characters
They should allow you to see the equipment your Valk is wearing but just not be able to take it off or swap it … or better yet treat her like mercenary and let you equip her but if she dies she loses the gear or every new game she would lose it too so that people wouldn’t just throw godly gear on her
I can just imagine her with reaper's toll, life steal and some sort of movement bonus. If we can equip her, I think there's not really much that can kill her.
Valkyrie is cool if it wasn't for the damn sound volume bug. Those loud moans get annoying really fast.
WHAT!? you mean you don't like everyone within ear shot to think you're watching a bad porno?
@@GGMentor more like seeing their disappointed face when they ask me what was I watching. I tell them "An amazon, rogue and a valkyrie". Their eyes light up and they ask me to show them so I show them the pixeled characters in the legacy graphics :)
Does the Amazon become impossible to hit with maximum evasion and can do insane damage with crit. Gaining ultra instinct.
Yes especially with a shield 75% block chance and good defense like fortitude.
She ends up having multiple layers of defense so thick she is practically unhittable.
And crit makes for very nice physical hits yes
Technically a hoto would get you one more right also you could have a Tira with +3 passives and 3 more grand charms. I’m not sure if you had those in your cube but when I summon my skeletons and stuff sometimes I’ll pull out my 3 extra summon GCs run pindle then I’ll put em back
Does that javelin give +4 to passives ? Titans?
+13 in your inventory (9+3+1) +1 from cta +2 skill shrine
Then +3 circlet +3 amulet 3from gloves 3 (4?) from weapon 2 rings 2 shield 2 from armor 1from belt (boots?)
I think max Valkyrie is around 55 might be 56-57 I’m not sure but 52ish without skill shrine and cta
Excuse me, do Amazons need any special rune word for RUNNING in 2.6?
I tried using peace on frenzy barb to try get a valk lol.didn’t work. Doesn’t work with the new A1 merc either sadly.
They desummon I thought I covered that
@Ginger Gaming Mentor QUESTION: if i pop on Insight runeword (for +1-6 critical strike) along with my Peace runeword, as a non-amazon, will my valkyrie spawn with the bonuses provided to her by that crit bonus?
same question goes for any amazon skill (such as evade) that isn't amazon-specific on items.
thanks in advance.
What about the Shadow Master/Warrior do the same colored armors apply? What about the claws that change? 🤔
- Rare version of your own armor's base item
- Rare version of your own helm's base item
- Rare left ring
- Rare right ring
- Rare amulet
- Rare Bramble Mitts/Vambraces/Orge Gauntlets
- Rare Suwayyah/War Fist/Scissors Suwayyah on their right hand
- Rare Battle Cestus/Runic Talon on their left hand
I was hoping you'd show her tanking an uber, at level 17 and at the level yours was.
What's a good mix of the passives (synergies) to Valk in builds like mine that also utilizes bow skills. Meaning I don't have enough to "max" every skill.
At least lvl 17 valk is bare minimum to have a useful valk.
Everything else is icing on the cake
Would the runeword that gives fanaticism apply the speed to the Valkyrie
Never mind you answered in video thank you!
Has anyone found a pic guide that shows, I am having trouble telling orange from red and dark red and so on.
Going to old graphics helps
Chinchilla on 7:37
Spot the chinchilla!
thanks man
I like when she has hydras
If you give an act one merc a harmony and peace would the Valkyrie stay ?
Probably if the Merc could actually summon it, but as far as I know they do not summon it even from Peace.
were can I find the Valkyrie info in writing?
Too bad the runeword gear Piece doesn't let the Valkyrie stay. It always desappers. I hope they fix that in the future updates.
If you have one point in Valk then Peace will work properly.
@@colinslunecka7226 yes, sure, but I want to use it with other chars as well
Ya honestly stuff that summon from items should not check the characters for if you can have it
@@prestonmurphy283 I don't mind it being temporary, but let it stay say 20-30 seconds at least
Stupid question but if a mercenary has the peace armor can they summon a valkyrie?
No it doesn't seem like it. But they do get the crit O skill
Love it lol.
can you post those color information somewhere?
Light-Gold Armor - normal, no enhanced mods other than + light radius.
Dark Gold Armor - 24% Faster Hit Recovery
Pale Gold Armor - 66-80% Enhanced Defense (saintly)
Orange Armor - Attacker Takes Damage of 4-6
White Armor - +x defense based upon the slvl of your valk, and the clvl of your character.
Blue Armor - chance to cast Frost Nova/Nova on being struck.
Dark Red Armor - Poison length reduced by 75%.
Red Armor - Think of this as 'of the ' armor. Huge +life bonus, and almost a double regen rate. This is the ideal.
Valk Weapon Colors
Blue - Chance to deal cold damage. Potential use of a cold skill on striking.
Teal - Chance to deal lightning damage. Potential use of a lightning skill on striking.
Green - Chance to deal poison damage.
Black - Enhanced damage modifier. Life leech is also a possibility.
White - Large bonus to AR. Think "of the fool's."
patch 2.3 my valk would cast amplify damage...is that still a thing in 2.4?
How can you determine which modifiers she has at certain levels?
Same thing I said during the video, the color of her armor and weapon, are the only way.
@@GGMentor i had no idea that valkyries varied by other factors besides skill level
@@oversober Same is true for shadow master and shadow warrior for assassin. I learned that just recently as well lol.
If Valkyrie uses impale and impale always hits, what's the point of Attack Rating and/or Penetrate then for her?
Not sure, something they didn't address in the change to impale.
But I'm recent testing it also doesn't seem like she is slowing targets down which is another new feature of impale.
Perhaps either A she didn't get her impale buffed,.or B she is not using impale.
Hey does her gear keep continue to get better past Valkyrie skill level 27?
No but she does continue to get more life, defense, and damage
Can you have your own summoned Valk and have the amazon armor on merc to have two up at once?
Mercs can’t have summons, I’ve been told.
How can you tell what level she is?
and how i level up with a new amazon O.o
69 views. Nice.
💥😎💥
One thing I think could be cool for Amazon’s is if we could equip the Valkyrie but to keep it interesting and not completely busted, restrict her to RARE equipment at best. No uniques, no sets, no runewords. That way you get to have a cool consistent Valkyrie but no sudden bonus auras etc.
my favorite is shadow master =)
who is better ?
Shadow Master is like a house cat. She's going to do whatever she feels like, and sometimes it's Dragonflighting to a different enemy when you want her to tank. Sometimes she'll toss in a Mind Blast and randomly convert an enemy you're trying to kill. Sometimes she'll throw out a few Death Sentries and wipe out a whole pack of monsters by herself. You never know. It's definitely a lot more interesting to watch the SM do work, but if you want a reliable tank, the Valkyrie's better.
@@1987jjl thank you 2023 i am using Valkyrie, playing in Switch Console
Lightning strike and lighting charge has 14 points lol
Yup the beauty of T gods vigor
The only thing I hate, she's so damn slow.
Yeah she walks everywhere
Good topic but dude you are unnecessarily talking sooo much. I quit watching halfway through because I knew 3/4ths of the content was padding.
Lol I don't pad I am long winded, get it straight
@@GGMentor Yes, long winded is a better description lol. Anyway, brevity is the soul of wit and all that. :P
Blahhhhhhh holy shit. Make it easy
lol, what are you having trouble with I can try to make it more simple
Dumb build 🤣
Had no idea she has items wow